1 Petrol evaporated in Australian town

2013 started out extremely hot in the South Australian town of Oodnadatta. During the first week of the year, day temperatures were never below 40 degrees. It was so hot that the Australian Bureau of Meteorology had to add two new colours to its weather charts to represent the historic high temperatures.

But that was not the only surprising consequence of the heat wave. In the afternoons, filling stations had to give up selling petrol, because it evaporated, before reaching the tanks of the cars. Motorists were left stranded in filling stations, and had to wait until night or morning to be able to pump petrol into their cars.